Judges restoration in constitutional way, says Zardari
Co-Chairman PPPP Asif Ali Zardari vowed to restore the deposed judges of the superior courts in a constitutional and legal manner.
While addressing the participants of a general meeting of Peoples Lawyers Forum (PLF) here on Tuesday at the Governor House, Senator Asif Zardari said that PPPP has successfully completed the initial process of the judges’ restoration by releasing them from detention, the presentation of constitutional package and paying the salaries of all deposed judges.
Zardari told that his party is committed to make judiciary independent and to resolve the judges’ issue as soon as possible and for this particular purpose it increased the sanctioned posts of the judges of Supreme Court of Pakistan from 17 to 29 in the Finance Bill while the budget was also allocated for this task, he added.
PPPP Co-Chairman further said that they will not use any unconstitutional and illegal method to resolve the judiciary’s issue adding that such efforts were no more in favour of democracy as well as judiciary.
Zardari said that PPPP had no fear of the judiciary while it had no need to sack or minus any judge from the superior judiciary however he added that the sitting judges also will continue working after the reinstatement of deposed ones as this was agreed in Murree Accord.
He appealed to the coalition partners of the government to bring their proposals on the constitutional package soon for presenting it before the parliament for debate.
“We will follow and implement every decision of the parliament for the restoration of judges “, he concluded.
The lawyers led by Muhammad Hanif Tahir PLF Punjab President, Mian Muhammad Jahangir PLF Convenor in Lahore High Court expressed confidence on the policies and leadership of Zardari and assured him their full support for the completion of Benazir’s mission.
Governor Punjab Salman Taseer, Senior Punjab Minister Raja Riaz Ahmad, party General Secretary Jahangir Badar, provincial General Secretary PPPP Chaudhary Ghulam Abbas and other leaders of the party were also present at the meeting.
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